Wednesday, February 7, 2018

UK PM May Rethinks Position On Immigrant Students

Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom, has softened up a bit on her stance regarding immigrant
students to the country. International immigrant students have now been
classified as individuals who really do not bring about any long-term effects
on the numbers of immigration. This is what the prime minister has recently
admitted. For the past months, she has been adamant that they do. Now, she has
changed her tone and has finally admitted that these individuals really do not
have such effects on the immigration numbers of the country.

Back when Theresa May was still working as
Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, she had been more than happy to share
that international students in Britain have such a big effect in the long term
to the country. She has been quite tough on this and believes strongly about
it. She had brought this thought with her even as she had become the country’s
Prime Minister. She also had been making sure that all immigrant students went
through the hole of the needle because she believed that these individuals were
coming to the country in the guise of studying when they were really going to
find work in the country.

The
change in her position on immigrant students

May had been recently interviewed in China
and she had explained her change of position on the issue. She had disclosed
that there were random colleges and educational institutions in the country
that were taking in international students. They were also offering fake
courses. May continued that these institutions have now been closed and are now
no longer operating. That is why she now believes that international students
really do not have significant effects in the long term on the number of
immigration in the country.

She continued to share in the interview
that it is essential to go back at what was happening in the UK and with the
international students during the time that she was serving as the home
secretary of Britain. She said that those colleges and educational institutions
had paved the way for her claim. However, since these have been closed now, so
have her views on the issue at hand. Most of these unscrupulous institutions
were bringing in international students but they were mostly to get them to
work and not really for studies.

The
ONS shares its study

The country’s Office for National
Statistics had done a study and it had looked into the data of exits in the
past year. Even though there were students who have stayed more than what was
indicated on their visas, these individuals really did not bring any
significant issues that would stay in the country for a long period.